Permalink: https://www.media.greenpeace.org/archive/Hope-Through-Action-Street-Art-Project-in-Turkey-27MDHUWKSQTP.htmlConceptually similarHope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3UCompleted★★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3WCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3XCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3ZCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL41Completed★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL40Completed★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL42Completed★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL43Completed★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL44Completed★★★★View AllGP1SWL4RHope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyHusna Cakir, a Turkish artist usually specialising in miniature paintings, paints a wall in Ulamis village, Turkey as part of a global street art project entitled Hope Through Action.Hope Through Action is a global street art project, bringing ten large-scale murals to ten cities around the world. This mural is in Turkey, located in Seferihisar, known as a ‘slow city’, Ulamis is a village where 2600 people live. However every weekend it is filled with people from the city, who come for its farmers market and heirloom bread. Greenpeace Turkey collaborated with local NGO Atölye Deneme Sanat ve Ekolojik Çalışmalar Derneği, and artist Husna Cakir ,who specialises in traditional Turkish arts to bring the warm and sweet breeze of hope through art. Husna covered her painting with bales of reclaimed plastic bottles, symbolizing the plastic waste imported to Turkey from other countries. She let local people interact with the art and asked them to remove any objects disturbing them, to unveil ‘nature’s purest state.’Locations:Turkey-Western AsiaDate:10 Nov, 2021Credit:© Buse Altun / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5184px X 3456pxKeywords:Actions and protests-Activists-Art works-Artists-Break Free from Plastics (campaign title)-Climate (campaign title)-Close ups-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Outdoors-Painting actions-Villages-WallsShoot:Hope Through Action - Global Street Art Project in Turkey - PhotosHope Through Action is a global street art project, bringing ten large-scale murals to ten cities around the world. This mural is in Turkey, located in Seferihisar, known as a ‘slow city’, Ulamis is a village where 2600 people live. However every weekend it is filled with people from the city, who come for its farmers market and heirloom bread. Greenpeace Turkey collaborated with local NGO Atolye Deneme and artist Husna Cakir ,who specialises in traditional Turkish arts to bring the warm and sweet breeze of hope through art. Husna covered her painting with bales of reclaimed plastic bottles, symbolizing the plastic waste imported to Turkey from other countries. She let local people interact with the art and asked them to remove any objects disturbing them, to unveil ‘nature’s purest state.’Related Collections:Hope Through Action Global Street Art Mural Project - Global Collection (Photo & Video)
